On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 08:30 PM, Darren wrote:
http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/ viewtopic.php?t=917&sid=7922399880029ff587ec067e1bc156c3
Haven't tried, something for the week end.
I have a pc question. How do I get a 4.3gb drive to functuion under win 95? Do I just partition it or am I better off installing 98.
On a mac I'd just make a couple of partitions, having no bootdisk handy fdisk would only go to 4xxmb and report the drive full even though windows showed 1.99gb. I'm seeing the dos limit and the fat 16 limit I guess. Can I fdisk and partition the drive on a second machine and then have win95 see and format the partitions?
The old pc is a 100mhz P1 so I'm in no hurry to upgrade it to 98, the old 1.2gb drive makes aweful noises and I'd like to swap my elderly friends data over to a faster drive with a little more room but forgot about the filesystem limitations. Any help is gratefully recieved, the old boys only just found the internet and is caning the old drive, amazing the difference between 8mb and 64mb on the same machine. ;)
Just purchased a 133mhz 7'dos card for the mac, big upgrade from the 100mhz, well I hope it will allow more than 64mb of on board ram to be installed but for $35au it doesn't really matter. Cheers
I think that part of the problem may be the motherboard. Earlier boards would only detect up to 528MB, then later ones had limitations for 2048MB, then 8GB, 32GB, then 127GB. When you go into CMOS, does it show the drive as 2048MB instead of the full 4 GB? If so, you will either need drive overlay software to enable the computer to see the whole drive, or a PCI IDE controller card.
If you can see the entire capacity in the CMOS, then if you have one of the later releases of Win95, like OSR2 or OSR2.5, they have Fat32 support which would allow you to have the entire drive as one partition.
As for the DOS card, it depends. Sometimes they come with onboard RAM. As an example, my P166 12" PC Compatibility card has 16MB soldered to the card itself, and supposedly allows a 64MB DIMM to bring it up to 80. However, some people have reported being able to use a 128MB DIMM in it. The last time I tried a 128 in it, it didn't work too well. I just use it to play old games that require a slower processor. I also have an AMD K6-2 500mhz PC for faster games that will still play only in 98 and require a video card capable of 3D acceleration (Slave Zero comes to mind).
Brian Futrell
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